🧶 June Update 🧶

June has definitely flown by for me, I was sort of wishing the first three weeks would go rather quickly as I went on holiday in the last week of June, and I couldn’t wait! At the start of this month, I was mainly focusing on my sewing projects, as I had a couple of things that I wanted to finish so that I could take them away with me! All in all, in May and June, I made: a white striped jersey top, a pink longline cardigan, a pair of black linen trousers, a cross body sling style bag, a floral patterned grey dress and a white slip dress. Our holiday was very relaxed which meant that I took photos of me wearing some things, but not others! Here's me in my pink cardigan and my sling style bag, I love the fabric of this so much!

I've also started the Scheepjes Hygge CAL from 2017 in the Rainbow colourway. I must have missed it somehow when it was first released, and then found it on the Scheepjes website and knew that I had to make one too! Embroidering onto a crochet background is another thing on my long list of techniques that I want to try, and I thought that this would be perfect! I've only done about 15 rows so far, so I've not even started embroidering yet!

Before we went away, I bought a hank of the new West Yorkshire Spinners Exquisite Lace Yarn in the colour Savoy, it’s a beautiful teal green shade. I’ve never bought a hank of yarn before, so it was my first time hand winding into a ball! I’ve thought about buying a ball winder in the past, but always put it off as I’m not sure how much use I would get out of it. I’ve watched so many YouTube videos, and saw an interesting comment on one, in the video a nostepinne was used, and someone had commented that they used a turkey baster to wind their yarn around. It sounded great to me, and it only cost me £1 to buy one! I was a little bit nervous in case I got in a big tangly mess, but it worked so well! It took me two nights in total to wind it, and I ended up with this big egg shape of yarn!

Slowly getting bigger!

I decided to use the WYS wool to try a bit of lace knitting. It’s something I’ve tried once before but in a pattern that only had lace parts in a couple of sections across rather than the whole length. I found a free pattern via a google search, which didn’t look too difficult and I leapt straight in! We did one big walk on holiday, up Easedale Tarn, and I had my knitting with me, so I had to do a couple of rows while we were up there! Quite possibly one of the first people to knit up there, but we’ll never know for sure!